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 Mandated Drug Treatment in the Criminal Legal System—a Blunt but Necessary Tool?

Abstract: How should the state respond to people who commit low-level criminal offenses that stem from an untreated substance-use disorder? The issue has taken on a heightened importance amidst an...
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Rethinking Mandated Drug Treatment: Why Expanding Freedom Requires Structural Drug Policy Reform

Abstract: In this same, May-June 2026, issue of the Hastings Center Report, Brendon Saloner suggests that mandated drug treatment can expand freedom and promote egalitarian social justice so long as...
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Harm Reduction as an Alternative to Mandated Treatment in the Criminal Legal System

Abstract: In “Mandated Drug Treatment in the Criminal Legal System—a Blunt but Necessary Tool?,” in this issue of the Hastings Center Report, Brendan Saloner examines the empirical evidence surrounding mandated treatment,...
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Musical Performance and Biomedical Human Enhancement: Ethnographic Perspectives on Bioethical Questions

Abstract: This article explores the use of biomedical human enhancement in the field of musical performance, focusing on the role of beta-blocking drugs, which have been used by classical musicians...
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Banning Gender-Affirming Treatment for Minors: The Supreme Court Speaks

Abstract: In United States v. Skrmetti, the U.S. Supreme Court considered the constitutionality of a Tennessee law prohibiting certain medical procedures for the treatment of minors with gender dysphoria. A...
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Transformed but Not Cured: The Ethics of Describing Gene-Editing Therapy for Sickle Cell Disease

Abstract: In December 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved gene-editing therapies as sickle cell disease treatments. Such approvals for gene-editing not only mark radical scientific innovations for populations...
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Making the Move to a Learning System of Research Ethics

Abstract: Not much of what is done to protect and engage participants in clinical research is firmly grounded in evidence. Furthermore, it can be difficult to conduct research to generate...
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Patients’ Perspectives Matter in DSM Updates

Mental health patients’ perspectives should be included in DSM revisions.
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The Hastings Center Report explores the ethical, legal, and social issues in medicine, health care, public health, and the life sciences. Six issues of the pioneering bioethics journal are published each year, containing an assortment of essays, columns on legal and policy developments, case studies of issues in clinical care and institutional administration, caregivers’ stories, peer-reviewed scholarly articles, and book reviews.

To access supporting information for articles in the Hastings Center Report, such as tables, figures, and appendices that do not appear in the journal itself, see this page.

Authors come from an assortment of professions and academic disciplines and bring a range of perspectives and political opinions. We welcome submissions from new authors. The Report’s readership includes physicians, nurses, scholars of many stripes, administrators, social workers, health lawyers, and others.

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Gregory E. Kaebnick, editor
Laura Haupt, editor
Julie Chibbaro, staff editor
Nora Porter, art director

Contributing Editors

Nancy Berlinger
Lori Bruce
Rebecca Dresser
Susan Gilbert
Emily Largent
Stephen Latham
Carolyn Neuhaus
Cristina Richie
Lauren Taylor


Editorial Committee

Nancy Berlinger, Virginia Brown, Susan Gilbert, Laura Haupt, Gregory E. Kaebnick, Julia Kolak, Carolyn P. Neuhaus, and Erik Parens,
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Robert Arnold, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Liz Bowen, State University of New York Upstate Medical University
Tod S. Chambers, Northwestern University
Marion Danis, National Institutes of Health
Rebecca Dresser, Washington University in St. Louis
Carl Elliott, University of Minnesota
Joseph J. Fins, Weill Cornell Medical College
Christine Grady, National Institutes of Health (retired)
Bradford H. Gray, Urban Institute (retired)
Michael K. Gusmano, Lehigh University
Bruce Jennings, Center for Humans and Nature
Eric Juengst, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Stephen R. Latham, Yale University
Thomas H. Murray, The Hastings Center for Bioethics (retired)
Annette Rid, National Institutes of Health
Cynda Hylton Rushton, Johns Hopkins University
Jackie Leach Scully, University of New South Wales
Ilina Singh, University of Oxford
Tyler Tate, Stanford University
Robert D. Truog, Harvard University; Boston Children’s Hospital
Benjamin S. Wilfond, Seattle Children’s Reserach Institute; University of Washington
Matthew Wynia, University of Colorado

ISSN: 0093-0334; online ISSN: 1552-146X LC: 75-64303, publication no. 108810
Publisher: The Hastings Center for Bioethics
Bioethics Journal
(Ethics)(Health Care Sciences & Services)(Medical Ethics)(Social Sciences, Biomedical)

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